Alastair Gale was Asia security correspondent and Japan editor for The Wall Street Journal, based in Tokyo. He covered ...

A special exhibit aboard the battleship USS Missouri has a heart-wrenching perspective on what it is like for a fighter pilot ...

Submarines were a big part of the World War II effort, especially for the United States Navy. One sub, the USS Grayback, has ...

Operation Ten Go, the final attempt of the Imperial Japanese Navy to affect the outcome of the Pacific War, is well known for ...

Sometimes being a fan of the Space Battleship Yamato / Star Blazers remake series is suffering. On the one hand, it's a ...

The film opened in Japan on March 7. It sold 571,000 tickets for 702,817,200 yen (about US$4.78 million) in its first three ...

Japan has been developing electromagnetic (EM) railgun technology since at least 2015, and current plans call for its future ...

A release date is in place for the fourth part of the theatrical remake anime Star Blazers: Space Battleship Yamato 3199.

Leaders of the Imperial Japanese Navy ordered the Yamato to be “the pioneer of suicidal attacks by all 100 million Japanese.” The battleship aimed to storm into U.S. fleets without sufficient ...

Designers of the Yamato intended for this monster battleship to defeat any counterpart from the United States Navy. But the advent of aircraft carriers ensured that no such battle would ever occur.